MUST LISTEN: Pretty Loser by Sheila and the Insects

Sheila and the Insects singing about someone like me on their new single. Hahahaha

MUST WATCH/LISTEN: Your Silence is the Villain by Your Imaginary Friends

LOVE THIS TRACK!!! Your Imaginary Friends are back! Your Silence is the Villain is from  the band's second EP Silence is a Villain out on January 2013. I love the 90's alternative rock vibes going on in this track which reminds me of Yuck or even Shout Out Louds' revival of the sub-genre.  I dont know if that's the direction of the band's new EP. But clearly, this sound makes them standout from all of the synth-clad local bands there is today. Anyway, enjoy this track!

#justhittheplaybutton

Orange Blossom Flyover - Twelve Month Jury Zodiac

Purity Ring - Fineshrine

Juveniles - Through the Night

Lykke Li - Silver Springs (Fleetwood Mac cover)

Summer Camp - City

Slow Club - Beginners

Stars - The Theory of Relativity

Nada Surf - Waiting For Something

Little Dragon - Sunshine

Bobby Baby - I Won't Dance With You Baby Tonight

Sleep Party People - The City Light Died

Societe – All That We've Become

Sleeping Policemen - High Skies

A Nighthawk - Peace

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New music submissions!

Lissy Trullie - It's Only You, Isn't It

CITIZENS! - Reptile

Fort Lean - Sunsick

Maps & Atlases - Winter

Now, Now - Dead Oaks

Fenster - Fantasy II

Porcelain Raft - Something In Between

SoKo - First Love Never Die

Soap&Skin - Wonder

Colour Coding - Kick

Selebrities - Night Heat

Pete Yorn - Surfer Girl (Beach Boys cover)

Coasting – Same Old Same Old

Kindness - Gee Up

Toro y Moi - Dead Pontoon

Bear In Heaven - The Reflection of You

Cults - You Know What I Mean

The Knocks feat. Mandy Lee - Midnight City [M83 Cover]

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Since my flight to Singapore for the Laneway Festival is not gonna push through, I think it's time for me to post these amazing, long over due music submissions I've received on my email. I am sorry I've been lazy for the past weeks but I'm back with some must-listen tracks! You can also download the songs. Just right click on the title. Enjoy!

Sinead O'Connor - How About I Be Me

Yasmin - American Wedding [Frank Ocean Cover]

120 Days - Dahle Disco

Memoryhouse - The Kids Were Wrong

I Was A King - Happy (Feat. Robyn Hitchcock and Emil Nikolaisen)

Say Anything - Burn A Miracle

Peasant - The Flask

Nada Surf - Waiting For Something

Newtimers - January Love

School of Seven Bells - Lafaye

Now, Now - School Friends

The Lighthouse and the Whaler - Pioneers

Benji Mann - Fallin' To The Ground (feat. Jonathan Lee)

Mansions on the Moon - Athens

Yellow Ostrich - Marathon Runner

Yukon Blonde - Stairway

I will be posting the second half sooner and it's gonna be as awesome as these tracks! ;p

The Kills' Last Goodbye??

Didnt know photo booths could be a perfect place for emotional escape.

To celebrate The Kills' 10th year of partnership, NOWNESS presents the music video for their track The Last Goodbye directed by Samantha Morton.

"Shot in monochrome on crisp, silvery 35mm, the video reflects the beautiful simplicity of the track, with an old-school photo booth providing an intimate backdrop for Mosshart's intense and heart-warming opening performance followed by a series of touching to-camera poses reflecting the musicians’ longstanding, spirited friendship." - nowness

BAND CRUSH: Choo Choo

Check out this awesome band from Bern, Switzerland called Choo Choo! They make music that "mixes soulful pop songwriting with heartfelt indie rock passion." I totally dig their sound. It's nothing new or what but it gives me that feeling of familiarity which often hits the sport for me when liking music. If you're a fan of Tahiti 80 or Phoenix, then Choo Choo's music is definitely a must listen too! Their second album, Cannes, is out and you can listen some of the tracks from it below...

We Go is also their current single/video.

MUST WATCH: Taken For a Fool by The Strokes

Dear Jualian Casablancas, that super tight white pants are quite uncomfortable to watch for some of us.

LIVE STREAM: Go by Jónsi [complete album track]

After Sigur Rós announced their 'indefinite hiatus,' lead singer and guitarist Jónsi made himself busy and released a solo album of epic proportion. Almost every track in his album, Go, can be a soundtrack of any a Disney or James Cameron  movie. Montages of a possible scene are in my head while listening to the album. Coming from a band that doesn't do small, Jónsi put much effort in creating the album in a massive scale coz a lot of people were expecting too much and i think he delivered. I didn't skip any track from Go but my faves from the album are Boy Lilikoi, Around Us and the opening track Go Do.

Here's the complete audio streaming of Go

MUST LISTEN: Drunk Girls by LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem is playing at my house, my house!!!!!

LCD Soundsystem knows how to create party anthems that will surely make you go crazy once you hear them. Drunk Girls is one of them. It is a straightforward rock-out tune with dancey beats that feels authentic it will make electronic acts shame of their artificial sounds. For sometime, we've been hearing disco-themed songs with synths and electro beeps and that makes them sound alike. But LCD Soundsystem is doing it differently. You don't always need new wave elements to make people dance.
Drunk Girls is the first single from their yet to be released untitled album on May 18. Summer is going to be the season of new album releases!

FREE DOWNLOAD: Phoenix Live in Sydney

Since it's quite impossible to see Phoenix perform live in our country, you might want to download the entire live performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix tour in Sydney for free. Yes, for FREE! The French foursome offers free download of their Sydney tour in its entirety so we don't have to spend tons of minutes in bit torrents and for once we could practice legal downloads. Great deal, yes? click here for free download

MUST LISTEN: Forced to Love/All to All by Broken Social Scene

It's official! After listening to these new tracks from Broken Social Scene, their upcoming album Forgiveness Rock Record is my most-awaited album of the year.

I don't have to explain further why, just go ahead and listen to it.

Listen to MGMT's Congratulations [complete track]

MGMT couldnt wait any longer for their fans to hear the whole Congratulations album that they have to put a free online stream of it in their official website. Luckily, I've got this link on my email early today and u can stream it here!

It has a different vibe from Oracular Spectacular mainly because MGMT is not your typical band that will make the same sound coz it sells. I like it when bands experiment with their sound and take a risk just to give us fresh music. If it wouldn't work, they can still go back to their original sound but at least they once tried a different direction. Enjoy the album just as much as I do. The CD will be released on April 13th.   
TIP: dont skip a track

MUST LISTEN: The New Sound of FOALS

If you were disappointed with MGMT's new track, this one is an exception. Foals may have made us go crazy with their infectious post-punk sound in the 2008 album Antidote but with their new track, dreamy is the operative word.

Spanish Sahara is unlikely a Foals track in reference to their beat-driven singles from Antidotes. This one sounds quiet and more emotional- two adjectives that are hardly used in describing this band. I am hearing Bon Iver and Grizzly Bear but I love the new direction. It shows the versatility of Foals in creating fresh music without any compromise.

The new album, Total Life Forever, is out on the10th of May. LOVE!



Spanish Sahara was also used in the season finale trailer of Skins. Double coolness!

MUST LISTEN: Flash Delirium by MGMT [NEW]

I am feeling it! Here's a new track from the forthcoming album of MGMT, Congratulations. 'Flash Delirium' is a psyched-up track that is trippie and quite experimental. It's unlikely an instant hit like 'Kids' and it will take time for someone to appreciate the song.

You can download 'Flash Delirium' on the band's official website. Gad! I cant wait anymooorre!

MUST LISTEN: World Sick by Broken Social Scene

Why oh why Broken Social Scene?! Not again! BSS always makes me cry whenever i listen to their songs. They do not write the most depressing music. What makes their music so emotional is how they present it and the way Kevin Drew sings every song with compassion and heart-felt.

World Sick is another epic song from this "super group" with merely 7 minutes of pure raw emotion 'voicing the frustrations of a generation stymied by ineffectual leaders, outmoded systems, the sheer magnitude of the world's ills,' according to Pitchfork. Sounds political I must say.

It's another reason to get excited for BSS' upcoming album Forgiveness Rock Record due on May 5th. You can download this track here for free.

MUST WATCH: A Sunny Day in Glasgow "So Bloody, So Tight"

The usual overcast sound of A Sunny Day in Glasgow has finally saw some light with their new single, "So Bloody, So Tight" from their forthcoming LP Nitetime Rainbows. Surely, this is brighter than the usual gloomy sound of the band.

The video is their take on LL Cool J's character in Toys and the explanation on how they come up with the video is kind of confusing:

Philadelphia outlaws A Sunny Day in Glasgow star in this short film about the unrelenting existential riptide that is Modernity, attempting to recapitulate the fundamental transcendental litmus tests that make up potentially multifaceted psycho-sensual behavior. Based heavily on LL Cool J's character in Toys.  (from youtube.com)

  

MUST LISTEN: Boy From School (Hot Chip Cover) by Grizzly Bear

It's fascinating how Grizzly Bear transformed the high-fashion vibe of Hot Chip to a haunting yet soulful rendition of Boy From School. This was taken from Grizzly Bear's acoustic session in Australia's Triple J Radio studios.

Vampire Weekend Stripped-Down on MTV

Another thing to be excited with Vampire Weekend, beside their second CD Contra being released next week, is their acoustic set on MTV Unplugged. Ok, so I liked VW because of the electronic influence in their music and it really excites me how they would pull off their songs in stripped-down versions. Just plain EXCITING!

Here's a clip of Vampire Weekend playing A-Punk on MTV Unplugged

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MUST WATCH: Animal by Miike Snow

I really have big problems with catchy songs- they tend to stick in my head as I randomly sing the lines in any given place and time. This song is not an exemption. Animal was one of the best tracks that was released in 2009 and also part of my LSS playlist of the year. I just realized how I easily fall in love with bands who can make me bop my head with just the first few beats of their songs and Miike Snow perfected that.